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UNITED sTATEs PATENT oEEIoE.

JAMES H. MASTERSON, OF COLLEGE POINT, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO FREDERICK OSANN COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

ATTACHED FASTENING ELEMENT.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dec. 17, 1918.

Application tiled May 21, 1917. Serial No. 169,936.

To all whom z may concern.'

Be it known that I, JAMES H. MAs'rERsoN, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of College Point, Queens county, Long Island, State of New York, have invented an Attached Fastening Element, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part thereof.

This invention has reference to an improved article of manufacture comprising a fabric having secured thereto a loop or peet (so called) adapted to be engaged by a garment hook.

One object of the invention is to secure to a garment or to a piece of fabric a loop of the nature described by means of two groups of stitches in such manner that said loop will not be upset or swung with respect t0 the fabric 0r garment to which it is attached and whereby said loopis held in a position in which it is adapted to be readily engaged bv a suitable hook.

Another object of the invention is to secure a loop of the nature described to a fabric or a garment by means of comparatively few stitches in a manner to retain the base of the loop member against the fabric or lcarment.

Other obiects of the invention will appear from the following description.

The invention consists in the fabric or garment having the loop secured thereto in a novel manner as will hereinafter be more fully described and pointed out in the claim.

Figure l, represents a plan view, on an enlarged scale of the improved article of manufacture.

Fig. 2, represents a sectional view of the Same to illustrate the bearing of the bases of the loop on the fabric and, approximately. th ension of the loop bar.

Similar characters of reference designate corresponding parts throughout.

ne element of this improved article of manufacture consists 0f a fabric which may constitute an integral part of a garment or other article or which fabric may be adapted t0 be attached in some manner to such gar- A second element of the invention is a loop or peet, so called. adapted to be engaged by a hook and usuallv comprising a wire bent to form a. pair of rings or eyes 'adapted to bear as bases against the fabric and connected by a bar which extends approximately in alinement with the diameter of said eyes and is bent upward between said eyes to provide a clearance whereby, when said eyes are suitably attached to fabric, the entrance of the end of a hook between the fabric and said bar is facilitated.

As shown in the drawings 5 represents fabric of any kind and constitutirg an article or part of an article and 6 is the upstanding loop bar bent somewhat at 7. 7 and having the loops or eves 8 and 9 extending transversely of the lenn'th of said loop bar 6 to provide bases which, when suitably fixed, resist the lateral tipping movement of said loop bar 6.

In the economical attaching of the loop bar G to a fabric bv machine it is desirable that the fewest possible groups of stitches be used but it is also desirable that said loop bar 6 be sustained from tippingr over into contact with the fabric 5 whereby the engagement of thehock with said loop bar 6 would be ditlicult. For instance, it, is evident that if the members of the loops or eyes S and 9 at the same side of loop bar 6 were secured to the fabric 5 bv groups of stitches in alinement the members of said eyes 8 and 9 could swing in said stitches as in bearings until the loep bar 6 was in contact with the fabric whereas the attaching of said eyes 8 and 9 to fabric by stitches overlapping or engacinng tbe members of said eyes 8 and 9 at both sides of the loop bar would be uneconomical aid unnecessary in View of the present invention.

In carrying this invention into practice I prefer t0 make use of a sewing machine adapted to sew or form a aroup of stitches while the work is vibrated or moved back and forth relative to the needle or vice versa, but as such machine forms no part of the present invention I havevnot shown the same. The fabric 5 is placed in the machine and the loop bar 6 is positioned with the bases or eves 8 and 9 bearing on the fabric. the machine is then operated and a series of stitches 10 is sewn which stitches embrace one arm of the eye 8 or 9` as the case may be. In the present illustration said ,group 10 of stitches embrace the side member or portion of the eve 8 and extend approximately at right angles with the loop bar 6. I then,l by the usual mechanism,

shift the position of the work and bring the opposite side member or portion of the eye 9 to osition and sew the group of stitches 11 which latter stitches embrace the said opposite side member or portion of eye 9 and also are approximately at right angles with the loop bar 6. Thus the eyes 8 and 9 are secured to the fabric 5 by roups of stitches extending approximately 1n parallel directions, said groups of stitches being diagonally staggered relative to each other.

The result of securing the loop eyes 8 and 9 as j ust above described is that the group of stltches 10 holds the member 0r portion of eye 8 against the fabric 5 while the group of stitches 11 holds the opposite side member or portion of eye 9 in a similar manner so that pressure against the upstanding loop bar 6 transversely of its length in either direction is resisted by one of said groups of stitches and by the leverage or width of the bases provided by said eyes 8 and 9 or by one of them.

It is also found that' by the omission of stitches at the diagonally' opposed members or portions of the eyes 8 and 9 the fabric adjacent said unattached portions 8', 9', may leave these portions somewhat whereby the engagement of a hook with the loop bar 6` is facilitated. 4

Having thus described my invention 1 claim as new and desire to secure by LettersPatent- An article of manufacture comprising a fabric, and a loop upstanding from said fabric and having laterally extend-ing basesl each of said bases being secured to said fabric by a group of stitches, said groups of stitches being staggered with respect to each other, the remainder of said bases being unattached to said fabric.

JAMES H. MASTERSON.

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